I have some years of experience with maven projects, even with multi modules ones (which has made me hate the multi modules feature of maven (so the disclaimer is now d
Multi modules can help you with re-use your code. It's one of the best benefits you'll feel in work.
Imagine if you have 3 web projects with a security layer, You'll have to copy paste your code 3 times and trying connect it with each project.
But what if you create a security module a project with a specific job. It'll be easy to use it by injecting it to your app and then boom it works.
Also as mentioned in @ben75's answer the one maven build command and the correct order of building all your used jars. You'll think no more about which depends on another.